The third phase of National Supercomputing Mission was started in January 2021. The mission will increase computing speed to around 45 petaflops.
National Supercomputing Mission
It was launched to enhance the research capacities and capabilities in the country by connecting them to form a Supercomputing grid, with National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the backbone.
It aims to setup a grid of supercomputing facilities in academic and research institutions across the country. Part of this is being imported from abroad and part built indigenously.
The Mission is being jointly steered by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
It is implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
Benefits
It will boost India’s supercomputing capabilities to meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, MSMEs, and startups in areas like oil exploration, flood prediction as well as genomics and drug discovery.
It will increase computing speeds to around 45 Petaflops (PF). It will include three systems of 3 PF each and one system of 20 PF as a national facility.
It has also created the next generation of supercomputer experts by training more than 4500 High Performance Computing (HPC) aware manpower and faculties.
The three phases will provide access to HPC Facilities to around 75 institutions and thousands of active researchers, academicians working through Nation Knowledge Network (NKN) - the backbone for supercomputing systems.
